By world standards, the federal government is not unduly large (though some state ones are).
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In fact, Numbeo shows that even in our coastal cities, price-to-income ratios are very reasonable by world standards.
Yet the state remains small by world standards, and the number of public-sector jobs has barely risen since 1990.
This is low even by regional standards, and catastrophic by world standards.
The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.
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By rich-world standards, the emerging markets are still doing exceedingly well.
Still, the little data we do have suggests women are the single most important vector of progress in the world today--measured by any standards, including the World Bank's, the United Nations' or Amartya Sen's.
Evidence in the trial was provided to police by the management standards committee set up by the News of the World's owner, the Met Police said.
Its website is exceptionally energetic, even by the standards of the retail world.
It is true that Singapore Airlines, by any standards one of the world's best, has itself taken a hammering.
These should bring it into line with standards set by the World Trade Organisation, which is to accept China as a member on November 10th.
Despite trouble spots, the world, by 20th-century standards, is fairly peaceful.
Even by the world number one's standards, this was a remarkable victory as he got the better of Ireland's Padraig Harrington in a compelling last-round head to head.
It is not that the kids of the developing world have it so bad by local standards.
They are still poor by the standards of the advanced industrialised world.
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All three are very unequal countries by the standards of the rest of the world.
Natural gas as a feedstock for chemicals production is now, by the standards of the rest of the world, hugely cheap: yet global chemicals prices are high as a result of the high oil price.
Even by the rarified standards of this multi-million dollar world, the Al Salamah still stands out for its extraordinary opulence and high-spec engineering.
As a liberal city open to the world, Odessa was an aberration by the 19th-century standards of the Russian empire.
By the glitzy standards of deal making, moving money around the world for iTunes is mundane.
In the developing world, industrial and financial reform has sometimes been impressive by earlier standards, yet remains sadly inadequate in relation to what is actually required.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, the reigning world champion and a near media recluse by Formula One's standards, appeared to voice his confidence in the prancing horse's progress prior to the opening race.
The Millennium Development Goals, set to be completed by 2015, are pledges by UN member countries to increase living standards in poorer parts of the world.
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This forced the closure of the News of the World tabloid and prompted an inquiry into British press standards, led by Lord Justice Leveson.
Clare Short has warned that two-thirds of the World's population could be suffering water shortages by the year 2025 if current standards are allowed to continue.
Although imbalances reversed sharply in 2009, they remain high by historical standards and are forecast by the IMF to continue at around 2% of world GDP over the next five years at least.
Fifty years is a long time, even by the standards of the rise and fall of nations, but in the ever changing world (in which we live in) of pop culture both Bond and the Beatles should long ago have been passed over to the custody of historians for safekeeping.
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Livestrong spokeswoman Katherine McLane responded Saturday by reassuring donors that the charity has always been dedicated to the highest standards of the nonprofit world.
Like most Internet and Web standards, IP was developed and is used by a multitude of stakeholders across the world and the general agreement codified in this standard has been essential to the growth and vibrancy of the Internet.
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